Re: Ion Motors / Electrostatic Pendulum

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Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>

>Original poster: "Scott Fulks by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><darkthing-at-earthlink-dot-net>
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>Christopher Boden wrote:
> > Now....how can the energy of a coil be turned into electromotive force?
>
>I don't think that the term "electromotive force" is what you meant to use
>here.  EMF is equivalent to voltage, and tesla coils have plenty of that!
>

yup yup.


>I assume you meant, "How can the output of a tesla coil be efficiently
>converted to mechanical energy?".  I don't think this is a very useful
>application for a TC.  A coil's output is at high frequencies, and high
>frequencies don't translate to mechanical motion very easily.  I doubt you
>could even begin to approach the efficiency of an ordinary 60 hz motor with
>any kind of mechanical device attached to a TC.

I figured that. But the main thing is to create applications for it. I don't 
care if it's incredibly efficiant, just interesting. :)


>
>If there is a good practical application for a tesla coil, I think it lies
>in the realm of acoustics, radio, or plasma physics, not mechanics.
>
>Regards,
>Scott Fulks (darkthing-at-earthlink-dot-net)
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duck




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